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stokehold

noun

Etymology

From stoke + hold.

  1. derived from *kel-✻
  2. derived from *haldaną✻
  3. derived from *haldan✻
  4. derived from healdan
  5. derived from holden
  6. compounded as stokehold — “stoke + hold”

Definitions

  1. A chamber where a ship's furnaces are stoked.

    • Yarrow's patent water tight ash pans are fitted to each boiler, to prevent the fire being extinguished by a sudden influx of water into the stokehold.
    • A plume of smoke went nearly straight up from the funnel, and now and then the clang of furnace-slice and shovel rose from the stokehold, for Mayne hoped to float the vessel next tide.
    • The noise and roar of the engines was ever in my ears, and the peculiar ocean-like noise of the stokehold ... and the metallic clang of coal as it shot from shovels....

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA